Our first visitors!

We were so excited to have our first visitors to Austin!  Doug's parents, Steve and Julie, came in around September 8th and were gracious enough to drive our other car here for us.  This allowed Kristin and Kylie to fly to Austin instead of driving 17 long hours.  They flew back to Nashville after a great week long stay!   They also helped us with Kylie while we went up to NY for a doctor's appointment for Andrew.  They babysat her while we were gone for 3-4 days.  The doctor we saw was Dr. Ken Bock and is in integrative medicine; this means who uses some traditional medicine, but also some of the biomedical approaches, as well.  He combines the two to have the best results with treating many diseases and problems, not just autism.  But, he is on the fore front of treating autism using biomedical interventions.  It was a great trip and we stayed in Poughkeepsie, with Kristin's aunt and uncle, Phyllis and Mike.  They were so gracious to open their home to the 3 of us for those 3 nights.   We had a great visit and went on a small walk overlooking the Hudson River.  It was a beautiful day!

Paw Paw and MiMi got to go eat lunch with Andrew at his school, Doss Elementary.  They also brought his birthday present with them, which was a Wii game.  He is becoming quite good at the racing games and has come very far!!